Fat content, energy value and fatty acid profile of donkey milk during lactation and implications for human nutrition

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Martemucci, Giovanni ^a   D'Alessandro, Angela Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Donkey's milk; Energetic value; Fatty acids; Nutritional remarks

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; EICOSAPENTANOIC; FAT; FATTY ACID; LACTOSE; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONKEY; ENERGY YIELD; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LACTATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; THROMBOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EQUIDAE; FATS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; HUMANS; LACTATION; MILK;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 84865975347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-11-113     Document Type: Article

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